But courage, child: we are all between the paws of the true Aslan.

King Tirian to Jill in C. S. Lewis’ The Last Battle

merely human musings on [my] life “between the paws” — faith, yearnings, joys, ambiguities, friendship, and discovery within the Realm I live and long for.

integrity is Christ-centered…

The Sermon on the Mount contrasts two ways of living before God. One way to measure faithfulness is by what we do, and the other is by who we are. In short, the Sermon on the Mount is about integrity that is distinctly Christian. Every sentence bears the conviction that who we are on the inside matters immensely to Jesus because there is no inherent relationship between what we do and who we truly are.

kingdom mission is church mission, church mission is kingdom mission, and there is no kingdom mission that is not church mission.

- Scott McKnight